On this page, we are exploring concepts like capitalism, the free
market, the origins of money, and economics.
We are asking fundamental
questions about who shapes governmental polities relating to the
economy.
We are asking questions like:
- What is a market economy?
- Who gets to shape government policies relating to the economy? What about policies that "the fed" creates?
- Do government policies create and shape markets?
- If so, do the wealthy elite-- who seem to control government-- force policies that create market
outcomes that funnel wealth primarily to the upper economic classes, rather than in a more egalitarian way?
- Is Adam Smith's "invisible hand" a myth?
- Have
large corporations headquartered far away from the towns in which we
live forced governmental policies that allow them to control markets,
rather than fostering local and home grown economies?
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Is the Concept of the "Free Market" a myth? |
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The Book: The Conservative Nanny State
How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
by Dean Baker, published May 2006
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In
his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives
favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives
rely on a range of “nanny state” policies that ensure the rich get
richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It’s time for the rules to change.
Sound economic policy should harness the market in ways that produce
desirable social outcomes – decent wages, good jobs and affordable
health care.
Read the book:
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Movie: Where Does Money Come From? |
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What is money:
Where does money come from?
Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as
Debt"
tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what
money is and how it is being created.
The main web page for this movie is: http://www.moneyasdebt.net/
To Watch Movie, Click HERE (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18205.htm).
While you are at this site, be sure to check out the article called "In Debt We Have Trusted," For over 300 Years," written by Jim Kirwan. This article starts this way:
After decades of
searching for the lynch-pin that literally holds
everything about this corrupted world together; this
morning brought an answer in a Forty-seven minute
video. It asks a seemingly very simple question: Where Does Money Come
From?
The answer is equally
simple but devastatingly obvious, once the players and
their rules are clarified.
This also tangentially
explains just how it is that the Corporatocracy and the
Banks continue to demand that "growth must always
increase" - every hour, every day, every year and every
decade. This is impossible because under the laws of
nature nothing can go up forever-and yet that is exactly
what our entire monetary system is based on-along with
its shadow partner-the ever-expanding debt of
individuals, companies, corporations, and especially
governments. . . .
Other Sources of Information include: The Money Masters (http://www.themoneymasters.com ).
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Equitable and Sustainable Economy 
